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Sophocles
(496-406 B.C.)
Playwright: Oedipus Trilogy

won 24 contests,never lower than 2nd;
believed to have introduced the 3rd actor;
fixed the chorus at 15 (had been 50)

Sophocles' Biography
The Religious and Moral Ideas of Sophocles
Chapter 7.2: Classical Greek Tragedy (Sophocles)
Characteristics of Sophocles' Plays

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Sophocles" Works

Ajax - 440 B.C.
(R.C. Trevelyan, transl.)
Antigone - 442 B.C.
(R.C. Jebb, transl.)
Electra - 410 B.C.
(R.C. Jebb, transl.)
Oedipus at Colonus -
(F. Storr, transl.)
Oedipus the King -
(F. Storr, transl.)
Philoctetes - 409 B.C.
(Thomas Francklin, transl.)
The Trachiniae - 430 B.C.
(R.C. Jebb, transl.)